who work for hp, lsi, advanced energy, and you'd think they're doing really good and they're really, you know, everything's all hunky-dory. well, then you meet their kids, and you find out both parents are working, and they're barely making it. >> host: cornel west. >> guest: brother john has a very, very powerful point that on our tour we've seen middle class dropping into the ranks of the poor. once making $150,000, now living in their cars. they lost jobs -- god bless you -- they lost jobs over which they had no control. they lost their jobs, lost their home, lost their health care and found themselves on the streets. i think most importantly it's a matter of recognizing that there is a growing group called the working poor, and you would think it would be oxymoronic in a prosperous society. but more and more working poor. one reason why we spend so much time talking about the minimum wage and the increase of the minimum wage. but the working poor are people who are engaged in the unbelievable sacrifice. and still wrestling with poverty. so this notion that poor people are lazy, t